An Ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Agriculture
Energy Use Efficiency in the American South
For economic reasons, farmers generally strive to maximize short-term agricultural yield (energy output) through energy subsidies in the form of fertilizers and pesticides. When these subsidies are used inefficiently they result in water and air pollution, soil erosion, extinction of beneficial insects, spread of disease, and disappearance of ground water reservoirs. The key to agricultural sustainability lies in understanding how the whole system - not just the parts - reacts to impacts resulting from energy subsidies. Because of the pollution (wasted energy) from excessive subsidies, and the increasing scarcity and cost of non-renewable ene…
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- ISBN: 978-94-007-6790-4
- EAN: 9789400767904
- Produktnummer: 18261509
- Verlag: Springer
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 247 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 5'074 KB
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